Factivity as a trigger of agreement with complement clauses in Moksha Mordvin
Natalia V. Serdobolskaya
Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Pushkin State Russian Language Institute, Moscow, Russia; serdobolskaya@gmail.com
Anastasia D. Egorova
Independent researcher, Moscow, Russia; astya28@mail.ru
Abstract:
The paper is aimed at finding the factors determining the choice between the subject and subject-object agreement patterns of complement-taking verbs in Moksha Mordvin. We analyze the following factors: factivity, truth value of the proposition in the complement clause, given vs. new, information structure.
For citation:
Serdobolskaya N. V., Egorova A. D. Factivity as a trigger of agreement with complement clauses in Moksha Mordvin. Voprosy Jazykoznanija, 2022, 6: 81–110.
Acknowledgements:
The work is supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research grant No. 20-512-14003 ANF_a and the project “Parametric description of the languages of Russian Federation” realized at The Pushkin State Russian Language Institute.
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